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INDONESIA

Would-be bomber fails to detonate

A would-be suicide bomber failed to detonate in a packed church in western Indonesia during Sunday Mass and injured a priest with an axe before he was restrained, police said. The assailant left a bench and ran toward the priest at the altar but a bomb in his backpack did not go off, said national police spokesman Major General Boy Rafli Amar. The man kept running toward the priest who was giving a sermon with a burning backpack, as the shocked congregation chased and captured him.